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<span class='exampleDropTitle'>RIA&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> <b>R</b>ich <b>I</b>nternet <b>A</b>pplications (or RIA) are <b>web applications</b> that have the features and functionality of traditional <b>desktop applications</b>. RIA's typically transfer the processing necessary for the <b>user interface</b> to the web client but keep the bulk of the data (i.e maintaining the state of the program, the data etc) back on the application server.

(Source: <a href='http://www.wikipedia.org' title='Wikipedia' target='_blank'>Wikipedia</a>)

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